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...stores and schools. Some 170,000 Israeli Arabs failed to report to work, as did 80,000 Palestinians from the territories. The strike crippled part of the Israeli economy, which has become heavily dependent on Arab labor, especially for such blue-collar jobs as construction, street cleaning and garbage pickup...
Five days earlier a parallel siege ended at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La., where 998 Cuban detainees held 26 prison employees. Standing in the back of a pickup truck, Miami's Cuban-born Auxiliary Bishop Agustin Roman was driven slowly past the center's wire fences. "My brothers, give me your weapons," pleaded the frail Roman Catholic clergyman. "Give me the hostages. No man can ask for freedom while denying it to others." One by one, the detainees placed machetes, pipes, handmade spears and nail-studded sticks in a pile amid the ruins of the administration building. Said...
...says, "that there is much of a railroad left." Sneak out of town on a back road, over the river, through the marshes of South Carolina, / the old road lined with abandoned "cabins for the night" and empty pickup trucks with hand-lettered signs still promising FRESH PEACHES. Back on I-95 the world narrows down to a river of concrete flowing between canyons of still leaves. Poles above the treetops display a shell, a star, double arches. The semiotics of travel...
...1940s brought a plague of these film-noir harpies, from Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven to Barbara Stanwyck in almost anything. Edgar G. Ulmer's relentless Detour (1946) cast Ann Savage as a harridan from hell -- the worst pickup of poor Tom Neal's life -- whose grating voice is, finally and poetically, strangled by a telephone cord. And as feminism found its voice in the early '70s, Hollywood shouted back. In Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971), Jessica Walter is a woman who has a brief affair with a Carmel, Calif., disk jockey (Eastwood...
When a Jeep Cherokee or a pickup truck with smoked windows approaches the main gate of the University of El Salvador, some students instinctively dart for cover. Though such vehicles are common in El Salvador's capital, they have gained notoriety as the favored conveyance of right-wing death squads, and occasionally spray the campus with anonymous gunfire. Two months ago the head of the university's employees' union was shoved into a black-windowed truck. He has not been seen since...